The (new) GOP plan to defeat Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly

[brooklynite]

Axios

Republican strategists have discovered a problem: Personal attacks on two of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are falling flat because of their likability.

Why it matters: In a broadly unfavorable national environment for Democrats, control of the Senate may rest on a pair of incumbents with two of the most compelling backstories in politics — Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Mark Kelly of Arizona.
* Warnock is the pastor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church.
* Kelly is a former astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, a gun control activist who survived an assassination attempt in 2011.

After failing to defeat Kelly and Warnock in crucial special elections that decided the fate of the Senate in 2020, the GOP is changing tack.
* The National Republican Senatorial Committee is now spending most of its money trying to tie Warnock and Kelly to President Biden and his dismal approval rating.
* "Whatever you think of them as people — you may like Mark Kelly, you may like Raphael Warnock — they have interesting stories, personal biographies," Chris Hartline, the NRSC's director of communications, told Axios. "But the reality is they both went to Washington and became part of the problem."

[tulipsandroses]

1. GA ain't buying it. I've been laughing at the Warnock attack ads

I’ve been saying, is that all you got?
He voted with Biden, Biden caused inflation.
The other ad is, he’s supported by AARP which is supposed to be a bad thing because AARP is bad because something something something.

Unless they have other ads in the works, I doubt the ones out move the needle for anyone already going to vote for him. Scary black man didn’t work last time either.

In contrast, Abrams ads are the usual, radical, dangerous, defund the police, yada yada yada.